Belletonte, Pa., December 6, 1912. A Girl of the Limberlost. [Continued from page 6, Col. 4.] bright blue gray eyes and its frame of curling reddish brown hair was the sweetest sight on earth, and at that instant Elnora was radiant. She set the hat on her head. It was just a wide tan straw with three ex- quisite peacock quills at one side. Mar- | garet Sinton cried out. Wesley slapped his knee and sighed like a blast and | Mrs. Comstock stood speechless for a second. “I wish you had asked the price be- fore you put that on,” she said impa- | tiently. “We never can afford it.” “It's not so much as you think,” said | Margaret. “Don’t you see what I did? | I had them take off the quills and I put on some of those Phoebe Simms gave | me from her peacocks. The hat will only cost you & dollar and a half.” She avoided Wesley's eyes and look- | ed straight at Mrs. Comstock. Elnora removed the hat to examine it. “Why, they are those reddish tan | quills of yours!” she cried. ‘Mother, | look hew beautifully they are set on! | 1 think they are fine. I'd much rather | have them than those from the store.” | “So would I,” said Mrs. Comstock. | “If Margaret wants to spare them, that | will make you a beautiful hat, dirt cheap, too! You must go past Mrs. Simms and show her. She would be pleased to see them.” Elnora sank into a chair because she couldn't stand any longer and contem- | plated her toe. “Landy, ain't I a queen?” she murmured. “What else have I got?” “Just a belt, some handkerchiefs and | a pair of top shoes for rainy days and colder weather,” said Margaret, hand- ing over parcels. “About those high shoes, that was my idea,” said Wesley. “Soon as it| rains low shoes won't do, and by tak- | ing two pairs at once I could get them | some cheaper. The low ones are two | and the high ones two-fifty. together | three seventy-five. Ain't that cheap?” | “That's a real bargain,” said Mrs. Comstock, “if they are good shoes, | and they look it.” | “This,” said Wesley, producing the last package, “is your Christmas pres- ent from your Aunt Maggle. I got mine, too, but it's at the house. I'll bring it up in the morning.” He handed Margaret the umbrella, and she passed it over to Elnora, who opened it and sat laughing under its | shelter. Then she kissed both of them. | She got a pencil and a slip of paper and set down the prices they gave her | of everything they had brought except | the umbrella, added the sum and said | laughingly: “Will you please wait till | tomorrow for the money? I will bave| it then, sure.” “Elnora,” said Wesley Sinton. | “wouldn't you" — : “Elnora, hustle here a minute!” call | ed Mrs. Comstock from the kitchen. “I need you!" “One second, mother,” answered EI | nora, throwing off the coat and hat and closing the umbrella as she ran. There were several errands to do in a | hurry, and then supper. Elnora chat- | tered incessantly, Wesley and Mar-| garet talked all they could, while Mrs. Comstock said a word now and then. | which was all she ever did. But Wes- | ley Sinton was watching her, and time and again he saw a peculiar little twist around her mouth. He knew that for the first time in sixteen years she really was laughing over some- thing. She had all she could do to preserve her usually sober face. Wes- ley knew what she was thinking. After supper the dress was finished, the plans for the next one discussed, and then the Sintons went home. EI- nora gathered her treasures. As she started for the stairs she stop: ped. “May 1 kiss you good night. mother?” she asked lightly. “Never mind any slobbering” said Mrs. Comstock. *I should think you'd lived with me long enough to know that 1 don’t care for it.” “Well, I'd love to show you in some way how happy I am and how I thank you.” “l wonder what for?’ said Mrs Qomstock. “Mag Sinton picked tha! stuff and brought it here, and you pay for it.” | said Margaret. ! least money, but she won't know it un- | shed that belongs to Elnora. At least | did it! “Yes, but you seemed willing for me to have it, and you said you would help | me if TI couldn't pay all,” insisted Ei- | CHAPTER VL Wherein the Heart of Pete Corson Is Touched by a Girl, COMSTOCK picked up sev- eral papers and blew out kitchen light. stood in FE gijiE combing the Limberlost for bugs and arrow points to help pay the tax. I know her.” “Well. 1 don’t!” exclaimed Sinton. “She's too many for me. But there is | a laugh left in her yet. I didn’t s’pose : ! there was. Bet you a dollar if we | could see her this minute she'd be chuckling over the way we got left.” | Both of them stopped in the road and looked back. “There's Elnora’s light in her room,” “The poor child will i sit screech owl waveringly prolonged fell on his ears, and he stopped. An in- stant later a second figure approached feel those clothes and pore over her | hi books till morning, but she’il look de- | cent to go to school, anyway. Nothing | | 18 too big a price to pay for that.” i “Yes, if Kate lets her wear them. on. “Yes,” said the first man. “] was coming down to take a peep Ten to one she makes her finish the | when | saw your flash” he said. “I week with that old stuff.” heard the Bird Woman had been at the “No, she won't,” said Margaret. “She | case today. Anything doing?” don’t dare. Kate made some conces- | did get her way in the main. some, and if Elnora proves that she | | can walk out barehanded in the morn- ing and come back with that much money in her pocket. an armful of | books and buy a turnout like that she | proves that she is of some considera- | tion, and Kate's smart enough. She'll think twice before she'll do that. EI- nora won't wear a calico dress to high school again. You watch and see if she does. She may have got the best clothes she'll get for a time for the til she tries to buy goods herself at the same rates. Wesley, what about those prices? Didn't they shrink con- | siderable?” “You began it,” said Wesley. “Those prices were all right. We didn’t say what the goods cost us; we said what they would cost her. Surely she's mis- taken about being able to pay all that. Can she pick up stuff of that value around the Limberlost? Didn't the Bird Woman see her trouble and just give her the money?” “I don't think so,” said Margaret. “Seems to me I've heard of her pay- ing or offering to pay them that would take the money for bugs and butter- flies. and I've known people who sold that banker Indian stuff. Once 1! heard that his pipe collection beat that of the government at the Philadelphia centennial. Those things have come to have a value.” “Well, there's about a bushel of that kind of valuables piled up in the wood- I picked them up because she said she wanted them. Maggie, how the nation did Kate Comstock do that?” “You will keep on harping. Wesley. I told you she didn't do it. Elnora She walked in and took things right out of our hands. S'pose we'd got Elnora when she was a baby, and we'd heaped on her all the love we can’t on our own, and we'd coddled, petted and shielded her, would she have made the woman that living alone, learning to think for herself and taking all the knocks Kate Com- stock could give have made of her?” “You bet your life!” cried Wesley warmly. “Loving anybody don’t hurt them. We wouldn't have done any- thing but love her. You can't hurt a child loving it. She'd have learned to work, be seusible, study, and grown into a woman with us, without suffer- ing like a poor homeless dog.” “But you don't get the point, Wes- ley. She would have grown into a fine woman with us; just seems as if El- nora was born to be fihe, but as we would have raised her, would her heart ever have known the world as it does now? Where's the anguish, Wes- ley, that child can’t comprehend? See- ing what she’s seen of her mother hasn't hardened her. I guess we'd better keep out. Maybe Kate Com- stock knows what she's doing. Sure as you live, Elnora has grown bigger on knocks than she would on love.” “I don’t s’pose there ever was a very fine point to anything but I missed it,” said Wesley, “because I am blunt, rough and have no book learning to speak of. Since you put it into words 1 see what you mean, but it's dinged bard on Elnora, just the same. And | don't keep out. I keep watching closer than ever. I got my slap in the face. but if I don’t miss my guess, Kate Comstock learned her lesson, same as I did. She learned that I was in ear- nest, that I would haul her to court if she didn't loosen up a bit, and she'll loosen. You see if she don’t.” Up in the attic Elnora lighted twe candles, set them on her little table, HEHE i fe | ; it LH HH Ledisi sreiidd fis 11 g lost the hulking figure : Bs E I F £5 : 4 : £ g “Not a thing.” said Pete. “She just | sions all right, big ones for Beraip abe took away about a fourth of the moths. She bent | py ably had the Comstock girl get- ting them for her. Heard they were together. Likely she'll get the rest tomorrow. Ain't picking getting bare these days?” “Well, I should say so,” said the sec- ond man, turning back in disgust. “Coming hoine now ?* “No; I am going down this way,” an- swered Pete. for his eyes caught the gleam from the window of the Com- stock cabin, and he had a desire to learn why Elnora’s attic was lighted at that hour. [Continued next week. ] First Vaudeville War. Phoenician Drummer—What's going on tonight? Ancient Hebrew—You can have your pick. The Nineveh Family theater has got “Jonah and His Whale.” and the Babylon Musical gaslens are playing “Balaam and His Trained Ass.”—Puck. Would Be Pleased. Loquacious Visitor (who has been describing in great detail her bridal trousseau)—And you ought to see me in my going away frock! Hostess (wearily)—I—er—wish 1 could.—London Tatler, Not Much, Patience—You say she was blind to all his entreaties? 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